Well, it's over. The machines have won.

[DeSwiss]

- We are now providing them entertainment (and worship).

[Rhiannon12866]

1. K&R! That was fascinating!

Is there anything that people won't do?

[DeSwiss]

2. According to the video.....

...it's their aim to find out.

- Stay tuned......

[PoliticAverse]

5. If anything or body has won it's Edward Bernays. n/t

[MrScorpio]

7. BiNGO!

[HopeHoops]

6. Yeah, but what the hell was in the boxes they got?

[DeSwiss]

13. Stuff.

Most likely plastic stuff.

[Wait Wut]

8. Those people were having a blast!

A large group of strangers just laughed and bonded for no real reason. That's awesome. We should put these in every mall in the US.

And...this thing would keep my daughter-in-law busy for hours.

[DeSwiss]

12. Bonded for no real reason?

Well I think the ''reason'' (boy is that a misapplication of the word) is fairly obvious. FREE! As long as you're willing to humiliate yourself in front of others.

In a consumer society where people have been trained like rats to shuffle-off to work each day in little metal and plastic boxes spewing noxious gases and killing the environment so that we can get to jobs to earn some money so that we can then struggle to pay the minimum monthly payments on the credit cards we've used to buy other boxes of stuff (a behavior which is held in the highest of regard in consumer societies as a rule), no matter what the material is -- nor what its relative true value is to us -- and/or to the planet, might be. Even if the material in the box is of questionable true value (like watching the teevee), as we have shown previously, this is no impediment to us bowing down and worshiping a machine that gives out ''free stuff.'' And so we do.

Even if it means punching a button for no apparent reason [font size=4]5000[/font] times.

So, what's the takeaway here? The machines now know that we will denigrate ourselves in the open view of the entire world, for something free. Anything free. But preferably something in a box so that we're ''surprised'' when we find out what's in it. Even if its probably just some more plastic shit that will end up in a landfill somewhere or floating down the streets where we live, or end up in either the Atlantic Gyre or the Pacific Gyre.

- But at least we're bonding......

[Wait Wut]

14. You can believe that.

It's your choice. But, I know my daughter-in-law would stand there and do all sorts of bizarre shit and would enjoy the hell out of herself even if the "free" item was nothing more than a plastic ring. I see that in the faces of a lot of the people in that video. It was a challenge to their pride. Were they self-assured enough to be able to make themselves look silly in front of a crowd of strangers? Absolutely. The crowd rewarded them with laughter and cheers. Far more valuable than the free box.

I take it you don't do karaoke...or bowl. Sometimes the reward isn't as obvious as a pessimist would like to believe.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Recommended because it's the ultimate Skinner Box!

OMIGOD! I think we stumbled on the true purpose of DU!

[Denninmi]

10. Serious ? WTF is this?

I tried to google it, found a website, but no real information is given.

Is this a psychology experiment? An advertising campaign of some kind? A filmmaking project?

[Sentath]

11. Another article

With a little more data

http://gawker.com/5924910/dystopian-vending-machine-orders-people-to-bow-down-praise-it-as-the-almighty-one-in-exchange-for-snacks

[denbot]

15. Well, now we know what happened to Grovelbot..

He evolved..